President Donald Trump has started to dismiss some of his own picks in moves that critics say show the chaos in his administration but which the White House says reflects the president’s devotion to implementing the agenda he was elected to carry out, The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend.
The latest such move was this past week, when the White House said it was firing Trump’s director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just one month after she was confirmed by the Senate. The White House explained that she wasn’t aligned with the president’s vision.
This past week’s firing followed ousters at several other agencies, including the head of the Internal Revenue Service and two top Justice Department antitrust officials who were removed from their roles after clashing with senior officials at the agency.
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